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Notes and Opinions.

INTENSE enthusiasm is exhibited in
Nova Scotia in favor of separation from
Canada.
EDITOR DANA of the Sm continues
to assert very directly that Cleveland
cannot carry New York in 1888.
THOSE people who wanted an old
fashioned winter" have got what they
wanted, the January thaw included.
DURING 1886 Northern and European
capitalists have invested 1923, 226, 900 in
Southern manufacturing and business.
WHITTAKER's ALMANAC for 1886
(English) contains list of two hundred
twenty " religious sects" in England
and Wales alone.
THE outcome of the senatorial con-
test in New York shows that the re-
publicans make no account of Conkling
now as political force.
THE Free Press has no fears that the
interstate commerce bill will destroy or
cripple the railroads. That settles it (;
no need of further controversy.
THE London Ners processes to know
that there is extreme danger of war be-
tween France and Germany, and war
rumors are growing more frequent.
RHEUMATISM appears to be spreading
/ I,n Of hn Nttxr
Editor Davenport of the Brattleboro
Reorn,er is one of its latest victims.
THE winter has been steadily and
usually severe since Christmas night.
The glass has ranged below zero almost
continuously since then.-Montreal Ga
zette.
SINCE 1887 only three United States
senators in New York have been elected
to second term, namely-Silas Wright,
William II. Seward and Roscoe Conk-
ling.
SENATOR INGALLS, of Kansas sees a
most favorable outlook for the repub-
llCdlo III 1000, anu lcSdluS tuc uoIulud-
ton of Blaine as certain as anything in
nature.
"SNowED UNDER " is the title of a
poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 1t has
no relation to the sad experience of
one of our esteemed contemporaries
last fall.
BARNUM and Forepaugh have joined
forces and there is monopoly " in
the circus business. This prevents the
elephant from getting big salary
Hartford Post.
THE Philadelphia Record says the
difference between a Vermont demo-
crat anda Philadelphia democrat, is that
one is so from principle and the other
for self-interest. Which is which?
MORE than one hundred and fifty
thousand copies of "Ben Hur" have
been sold, and still the critics say il is
not much of a story.-1rareller. That
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provided that every officer enlisted man or
widow who is or may become sixty-twO
years of age, or who Is or may become sub
jected to any disability or dependency
equivalent to some cause prescribed or
recognized by the pension laws of the United
States as sufficient reason for the allow
ance Of a pension, shall be entitled to the
benefits Of this act; but 1t shall not be held
to include any person not within the rule
of age or disability or dependency herein
defined, or who incurred such disability
while in any manner voluntarily engaged
in or aiding or abetting the late rebellion
against the authority of the United States
The bill for the relief of dependent rela-
tons and disabled soldiers and sailors,
which passed the house last week, provides
that in considering the pension claims Of
dependent parents, the fact and cause of
death, and the fact that the soldier left no
widow or minor children having been shown
as required by law, it shall be necessary
only to show that such parents are without
other means of support that their own
manual labor or the contributions Of others
not legally bound for their support. Sec
ton provides that all persons who served
three months or more in the military or
naval service of the United States, or any
war in which the United States has been
engaged, and who have been honoraby
discharged therefrom and who are now or
who may hereafter be suffering from mental
or physical disability not the result of their
own vicious habits or gross carelessness,
which incapacitates them for the perform.
ance of labor in such degree as to render
them unable to support, and who are de-
pendent upon their daily labor for support.
shall be placed on the list of inva-
lid pensioners of the United States, and be
entitled to receive S12 per month.
This act shall not apply to persons under
political disabilities or to any person whose
disability was incurred while engaged in the
military service against the United States
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The New Pension Bills.

The Mexican pension bill, which has
passed both houses of congress, provides
that a pension of SIS a month shall be paid
to all surviving officers and enlisted men,
including marines, militia and volunteers
of the military and naval services of the
United States. who, being duly enlisted
actually served sixty days with the army or
navy of the United States III Mexico or on
the coasts or frontier thereof, or EN- route
thereto in the war with that nation or were
actually engaged in a battle in said war,
and were honorably discharged, and TO such
other officers and soldiers and sailors AS
may have been personally named in any
resolution of congress for any specific service
in said war, and the surviving widow of
such officers and enlisted men; provided
that such widow shall have not re- married
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land in the United States is about
1,500, 900 square miles, of which 800 800
square miles produce all the hay, grain,
cotton, sugar, rice and garden vege-
tables used at home and exported. The
pasture lands occupy 100000 square
miles; yet not more than 100000 square
miles are devoted to the present pro-
duction of beef, dairy articles and sheep.
In 1886 the United States produced
nearly 100000 more bushels of grain
than in 1866. The amount of grain per
capita in 1865 was $3.50 bushels; in
1886 it was $3.50 bushels, which shows
that our people have much larger
supply of food staples than twenty
years ago, and will also account for the
somewhat lower prices. The hay crop
of 1885 was more than double that of
1865. The product of pig iron was
931 $50 tons in 1865 and 100000 tons
in 1885. This industry employs over
125, 1000 persons. The cotton crop last
year was 6,550,2l5 bales, against 2, 22S,-
9S7 bales in 1866. Taking the
twenty-one years of free labor the total
shows 90 ,3S9,031 bales. For the pre-
ceding twenty-one years under slave
labor IS, AL ,906 bales were raised eX
cess in favor of freedom, "a ,947 ,l25.
The value of the excess of cotton pro-
duced by free labor is put at S2,000,-
100000, or about the full valuation of
the liberated slaves. The country now
has 12S,967 miles of railroad against
33 ,90S in 1865, and it is estimated that
at least 1,000,0 900 men are employed in
constructing or operating these roads.
The capital stock of the companies is
placed at S3,S17 ,697 1872, the funded
debt at 1906, 727 ,066 and other debts
at $3.50, Jos, 2S1. The total yearly re-
ceipts, passenger, freight and mis-
cellaneous, are estimated at S765, 3D.
419. With the increase of railroad
mileage has came a remarkable reduc
ton in the charges for moving freight
the average charge per ton having been
reduced from 1920 cents in 1865 to
$50 cents in 1885. Equally striking
are the figures showing the immense
gains in fire and life insurance trans
actions and in savings banks deposits.
1t is also shown that while the wages
of mechanics average twenty-five per
cent higher to-day than they did in
1860, the purchasing power of money
is twenty-siX per cent greater now than
it was in 1860. Wages have increased,
therefore, both absolutely and rela-
lively, while profits have decreased
relatively in much greater proportion.
" 1t is made apparent" says Mr.. At
kinson, " that the increased abundance
derived from our fields, forests, factories
and mines must have been mostly con-
sumed by those who performed the
actual work, because they constitute so
large a proportion-about ninety per
cent--of the whole number of persons
by whom such products are consumed.
Hence no other evidence is needed to
prove that the working-men and
women, in the strictest meaning of the
words, are, decade by decade, securing
to their own use and enjoyment an in
creasing share of a steadily increasing
product"
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Elements OF National Wealth.

Some instructive statistics are given
in Edward Atkinson's article in the
January number of the Century. He
attributes the vast gains in our material
welfare during the past twenty years
to increasing individual ownership Of
land, freedom of exchange between
the states, free suffrage, local self
government and other influences es-
sentially American. Here are some of
the figures: Our population to-day is
very nearly double that of 1860, or
about 60,000,000. The area of arabic
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DIR. Il. II. HOsKINs' connection with
the WATCHMAN terminates this month
and Mr.. O. NJ. Tinkham will then take
the special charge of our agricultural
department. This latter announcement
will, we are sure, give much satisfac-
ton to large number of our readers
who are particularly interested in this
feature of the paper. Mr.. Tinkham
has had much experience in this kind
of work, having been for some years
agricultural editor of the Green Noun
tain Freeman before that paper was sold
TO the WATCHMAN, and he has long
been a leading contributor to several
agricultural journals. He has practi-
cal knowledge of matters pertaining to
farming, and is in thorough sympathy
with the important and varied interests
ii as very fortunate for the interests of
the WATCHMAN and its readers that we
Without intending any disparagement
of DR.. Hoskins' work in the WATCH
MAN, we confidently anticipate that Mr..
Tinkham will make the agricultural
department of more interest and value
in several directions, and notably in
respect to dairy and stock matters.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-26
DOingS In Congress.

After debating the interstate COM
merce bill at intervals for three days,
the house passed the bill by a vote of
2l9 to Al. Those voting in the mega
tive were Allen of Massachusetts, An
derson of Ohio, Bliss, Boutelle, Boyle,
Bragg, Brumm, Campbell of Ohio, Cas-
well, Dibble, Ely, Evans, Felion, Find
lay, Frederick, Gay, Gilfillan, Gros-
venor, Hayden, Hill, Johnson of New
York, Kelley, Ketcham, Libbey, Long,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-26
A Legislative Renaissance.

The following concerning a "sparring
contest of words between the late Hon.
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Markham, Martin, McKenna, Miller,
Morrow, Oates, O'Neill of Pannsyl-
vania, O'Neill of Missouri, Ranney,
Reed of Maine, Rice, Seymour, Wads-
worth, Wait, Weaver of Iowa and
White of Pennsylvania. The New
England members are recorded as fol-
lows: Maine-yeas, Dingley, Milliken
nays, Boutelle, Reed. New Hamp-
shire-yeas, Gallinger, Haynes. Yer
mont-yea, Grout; absent, Stewart.
Connecticut--yea, Buck; nays, Wait,
Seymour; absent, Mitchell. Rhode
Island-yeas, Pierce, Spooner. Massa-
husetts-Collins, Lowering and Rock
well voted yea; Stone, Davis and Whit
ing were absent, and Hayden, Ely,
Long, Rice, Ranney and Allen voted
nay. The house has passed a resolu-
ton to investigate the Pacific railroad.
The senate has referred petition from
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Uuion of the District of Columbia,
setting forth lamentable condition of
public morals in the district and asking
for legislation. The senate has agreed
to the house amendments to the cleo
toral count bill. Among the bills in
troduced last week was one by Senator
Hoar, appropriating money to aid Ben
iamin f. Stevens, native of Vermont,
in preparing descriptive catalogue of
works and documents found in the
archives of different European govern
ments relating to the early history of
the United States. Mr.. Hartman has
introduced bill proposing a constitu-
tional amendment for the election of
United States senators by the people.
The senate has ratified the Hawaiian
treaty, and passed the fisheries retalia-
ton bill, 46 to RiddlebergeD.
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0Mattbman 4 Suurnal.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1887,
Senatorial Elections.

TERMs--s2.OO per year, strictly in advances $3.50
II not paid within three months.
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l.'CR RENT

T,bB REST-NT- PLEASANT, 18TH ST TX
u tended near Pine, $50. neat siS-room frame;
- ger, hey Et Mrs kea;isIgs, adjoining JOSEPH
}ERK>G, Sl7 st, Il W, - to .. }eJ-Iw.
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PROBATE COCRT-JudOc James
To-day, Estate of X. r. Dodge: Will proven "A.
united To probate and letters Issued 20 h Harnpr.
Dond s2.OOW. Estate M John Fitzgerald. order "a
sen liquors at private sale. Estate OF Jeremiah
quinn; VIII admitted TO probate and letters issued
10 John quinn; bond $500. Estate OF Herman
schenlnellennig; letters OF administration issued
10 nelen Schemmelfennig: bond 81 900 Estate
vi Jho. L. Gregory; do 10 &. j. johnson: bond
$aooo Estate W. Mclean; order 10 sell house.
hoid furniture and granting leave to institut e, Z.
Heht suit. Estate of Marion Burgess: letters 81
administration granted II. W. Burgess: bond 4. o.
Estate OF 5. A. Stafford: Mary r. Stafford granted
letters OF administration; bond $1,000 Also ap-
pointed guardian; bond 1900.
POLICE CoURT-judge Shell
To-day, John Atwell, Indecent exposure. q ar
niteen days. Ralph Hyer, trespass on parks: fI0
collateral forfeited. Mamie Langley disnrieriy
conduct: s. or fifteen days. Thos. Kelly protan.
Ivy; - collateral forfeited. Ira Williams colorai
olsofderly conduct; 81 or fifteen DAYS 1heodore
scrNner, disorderly conduct; S. collateral ror.
lcited John ii. Gibson, do; do. Arthur Lindsey.
90; DO Rebecca Queen and Dorsey Queen d..
ORDERLY conduct In county; do. Elias iianin,ond.
assault; collateral forfeited. Howard Luxup do
90. frlscllla Hanley, cOlored. do; IS or fifteen
days. Roeer, Hughes and Emma Miller cuIorei
assault; continued. Maurice O'Conuur threats:
personal bonds To keep the peace Ashley Y
Barnes, larceny; s. or fifteen days t.eoru. Dent.
malicious trespass, personal recognlZance An.
drew Jones, assault; g. or fifteen days William
SENDER, colored, Larceny; sixty days, and sixty
DAYS Ia GeIault OF restitution.
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A NEW DEPENDENT pENstON HILL.
Which the G. A. 10. will Urge Congress
TO Pass Mt the Next Session.

MILWAUKEE, June 10.-A special to the Evening
Wisconsin from Madison, Wis, says: Adjutant
Gen. Gray, of the Grand Army OF the Republic is
busily engaged in issuing to all the posts in the
a dependent pension bill. whose passage will be
urged upon the next Congress. 1t was drafted by
the national pension committee Of the Grand
Army OF the Republic, composed OF the following
members OF the order: George 8. Merrill, of Law
renee, Mass; Louis Wagner, OF Phila.; James Tan
ner OF Brooklyn n: Y; John c: Linehan, OF Pena
COOK, n. H. and John 8. KOuntZ, OF Toledo, Ohio.
rms committee was appointed by cOmmander-fn-
CHIEF Fairchild under resolution OF the national
that in considering the pension claims OF depend
ent parents the fact and cause OF death, and the
fact that the soldier left widow minor child
or children, having been shown as required by law,
1t shall be necessary only to show by competent
and sufficient evidence that such parent or pa
rents are or have been without other means of
support than their own manual labor or the con-
trlbut1ons OF others not legally bound for their
support n,pppp9 provide, that all pensions al
shall commence from the date Of o'' actual aai
dependence If claim was filed prior
to July L, 1880 and in Of applications there
after made, the pension shall commence from the
1aIe OF the Hing OF the application in the Pension
Of1lce or from date OF subsequent dependence.
section provides that all persons who served
three months in the military or naval service Of
the United States, and who have been hOnorably
discharged and are suffering from mental or phys
habits, shall be entitled to receive S12 per month:
that persons who are now receiving pensions un-
DER existing laws whose claims are pending in the
Pension ONCE, may receive the benefits of this act:
that no person shall receive more than pension
for the same period and rank in the service shall
not be considered.
Section provides that II any invalid pensioner
has died, or shall hereafter die. leaving widow,
minor child or children under eighteen years OF
age, or In case there be no widow, or minor child
or children, dependent mother or father, such
widow, minor child OR children, or mother, or
father, shall be placed upon the pension roll at
the rates established by law for widows, minor
children and parents, without regard to the cause
OF death OF such pensioner; provided, that
said widow was married to the deceased
penSOner prior to the passage OF this
act. That the increase OF pensions for
minor children shall be at the rate OF s. per month
instead of ~ per month, as now provided by law,
and In case minor child is insane. dotc or other
wise helpless the pension shall continue during
the life OF said child or during the period of such
disability. Section four imposes fine OF $500 or
Imprisonment at hard labor not exceeding two
years, or both, in the discretion of the court, on
agents or attorneys accepting a greater fee than
SO, payable only upon the order OF the Commits
payment of the pension allowed,
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9ji X / ave-. i0r $3.50 2lI n. Cap. furnished. 10
Elegant store, corner 9TH aud Inv, with fine fix
for drug for which purpose 1T has
been used for the last ~ years Low to permanent
teraat-
ures. zoos and 1910 st. NV, Walter Building
also. large room suitable for plumber like in
building. with entrance paved alley and few feet
from + 81 W. G. DINAlL
Successor to Duyall K Marr).
LIN 81 ~
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"A Woman Ruthlessly Butchered by
Her JealOups ParanOunr.


UTICA, N. T., June 10.-In the ease of the murder
OF Joanna Rosa Cross, formerly OF Rome, n. Y, by
Clement Arthur Day. at Boonville, yesterday,
coroner Jones, Of Utica, began an inquest this
1SeitSnoon The principal witness was the father
vi Gne murderer, who testified that the murdered
, woman wanted to SO to her mother about four
nlies rom Rome, and his son opposed her going,
rearing that she would not return to him.
Eleven cuts in all were found on her body, one
Oh winch penetrated the heart and another laid
upen tne abdomen. The murderer continued slash
1ng MS victim after she had fallen to the ground.
me ne. knife was recovered this forenoon from
slulceway where the murderer had thrown 1t. 1t
Is ian an ordinary butcher-knife with blade five
iincneS long. worn narrow and sharp-potnted by
long use. The prisoner claims that the girl often
salu she nad rather die than to return to her
imutner He was cool and unconcerned last night,
Dpt this morning he broke down and cried.
me inquest will be concluded this afternoon,
ana ene prisoner brought to the Utica Jail tonight
,, ne murder proves to be one OF the most cold
,Diooaed. unprovoked and terrible pieces OF human
~ Tu'G ,y That has occurred In this vicinity
~ ~ many years. Day was a widewer, and
the woman was his mistress He claims
dnaI ne intended 20 drown or stab himself yester
uay, us ne could not live without her, but no one
ueMeVes MIN. He feared she was going to live
WIN another man. Her husband lives In Rome.
sue Drought an action for divorce against him, but
never appeared In court.
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baltimore Markets.

BALTIMORE, Nd. June lO.-virena 81 xes past due
coupons. "a; do. ten-forties 3Sx; do. new threes,
GAY bid to-day.
BALTIMORE. Nh. June 1o..cotton dull-mid.
Howard street os aud western super. %5oas 10: do
saii : 5o. 81 TO- family a extI. Sly
do. Rio brands, 4.75a5.O0; Pa.apsco superiative
patent. 545; do. family, BIB. Wheat~souther,
s5s,a{ and Sn,ss d red ss9 amber Yasgs
winter red spss and june " bid July. i aasss5s
August 30 Aa91 September 81 asked. Corn-southern
steady and quiet: white. 5la5a yellow, 4Sa4V;
western easier and dull mixed spot and june A. a41
July. 4Tts47ts: August 47.sa4s. Oats easy aud
dyiiasoyshsTn aud Psnnsyivsna 34a3S; western
and firm, 5sa6l. Hay dull-prine to choice western,
14 O0al45O; Provisions steady. Mess pork. Is. OOs
1900 Bulk meats-shoulders and clear rib sides
packed, 6ks6k. Bscon-shoulders TASK: clear rib
sides 8; hams. l2fal4. Lard-rehned. Sd Butter
nrm 17a174 Petroleum steady-renned. o.. Coffee
dull-Rio csrgoes. ordinary TO fair, ..2a2oa SUGAR
steady and Quet-A soft. So. Whisky firm and
steady, 114s115. Freights 70 Liverpool per steamer
Quiet-cotton. I'd four. ls. ID grain Nd ReceiptsN
1900 bushels: oats 1000 bushels; rye, LOO3
bushels. Shipments-hour, 2:1.414 barrels: wheat
$4,000 bushels corn, 5000 bushels Sales-wheat
100000 bushels; corn. 5000 bushels.
Chicago Markets.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, June 10. 1 y. m.-Clo.e: Wheat,
stesdy-Cash. 92ss; July, So 1916; Aurust, SIS.
80 1915 Oats e..y.,-Cash. 25k; July, 26i.:
trTs asi bye '1 Barley notln
C.sh. $40: July. 6.72sa6; 10: August. asesss.s5.
Butter hrn-creamery. 12al1; dairy, 1hl5. Exgs
l3jss14
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DIED..
IOSSE On June 10. 1887, VIM. c. BOSsE b,loysd
sband Of Mary Z. Bosse In the fifty ninth year al


BOssE. On June 10. 1857, VIM c. BossE, beloved
husband Of Mary Z. Bosse In the fifty year a
Funeral will take place from his lste residence Of
Sixth street northeast at 80 m, Monday June IA
thence ~ 81. Josephs church. wbers ReQu iem mas
will be said. q
DYER. Mrs. SARAH A. DYER, widow of Leon
Dyer Friday morning. June 10Th at O'Clock al The
residence Of her son-in-law, John e. RuetscuI. No
1923 Q street northwest.
Notice Of funeral later. Q.
AAN6EE. ANNA THERESA, only daughter of John
and Pauline hsnsen died 1T Oakland. Nd. June ON
1887. aged ten mouths and days.
Fuasral private.
HESS On Thursday June 9. 1857. Of $50, CATH
ERlNK HESS, the wife Of John Hes6 IN the ssventy.
mn Fass,sl sr9% 1877 Thir,ysour.A street. West wash
ineton, SUNDAY sfeerueon Ut $3.50 O'Clock Friends
IAEx5es, The resnsins Of the i.te JOHN H
MEiERS WI be buried At Prospect Hin esmsssry
'9one. but not foreotssa." e.
f.nt son Of GAVIN f. and Rate cS q pysc. . p
months and three days. baltimore psperS plea
copy.l
REkyEs Departed this lie on June 10. 1897. a
$3.50 O'Clock after short though painful iIlnese a
Sin:d:iss b. g. Macy y sEE S NICHOLS avenue
Funeral notice hereafter.
snlIH On hursday. June pth, 1857, q 40 N.
m. ho6kkT b, infant son q n B. snd + A snitk
TpnsEI viii tahs plsse at 8 30 pm, s,tura.r. Inn.
1lth, 1851, fron 1907 First street soufheast Her,
snd ssaastves Of the family invited 70 astsnG
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Local Notes..

The Post ONCE Department Will establish post.
Office at Washington Grove, Montgomery County,
Maryland, and Otie I. Cartwright viii be appoint
ed postmaster.
The will OF the late jeremiah Quinn was filed
and proven to-day, and letters were issued to John
Quinn as executor On bond of 81, 500. He leaves
his property to his wife during life and then his
children.
Mr.. E. D. EastOn Of Johns & Easton OF this city,
has been engaged as stenographer to report the
proceedings In the Government suit against the
BOIL telephone patents. The argument on de.
murrer begins in the United States court in Boston
On Monday.
To-day 1923 was deposited to the credit Of the
pol1ceman's fund, the proceeds OF the excursion
given Dy the police few days ago. The police
viii probably give another excursion before the
season Is over.